摘要：According to a canonical argument for mathematical platonism,if we are to have a uniform semantics which covers both mathematical and non-mathematical language,then we must understand singular terms in mathematics as referring to objects and understand quantifiers as ranging over a domain of such objects,and so treating mathematics as literally true commits us to the existence of (mindindependent,abstract) mathematical objects.In this paper,I argue that insofar as we can provide a uni_form semantics for the better part of ordinary,non-mathematical language,we can provide a uniform semantics covering both mathematical and non-mathematical language without thereby committing ourselves to the existence of mathematical objects.
